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The music by Zigmund Schul, who was born in Chemnitz in 1916 and died in the ghetto of Terezin in 1944, has been rather neglected until now.In collaboration with the Terezín Music Memorial Project in...

'Oh, I love now, with all my fears and forebodings, for now I still am not completely moulded. My life is still just beginning. I am strong. I long for a cause to devote my energies to.' This quotatio...

Commissioned by the Swiss Braunwald Music Festival Week 2007, Redel takes up the festival theme of 'Folk music as a source of art music' in three movements: here, he refers to concrete folk songs or f...

Hymn for violin and cello was commissioned by violinist Edna Mishell for her international musical project 'Compassion Through Music' which was dedicated to the memory of Yehudi Menuhin. The main idea...

Amore Scaduto (roughly translated 'Broken Love”) borrows its title from a romance novel composer Lee Hyla saw at a newsstand in Rome in Autumn 2004. This brief duo for violin and cello mirrors the ac...

Mozart gut spielen zu können gehört zum Rüstzeug jedes guten Musikers - mit dieser für Violine und Violoncello bearbeiteten Sammlung von populären sowie auch weniger bekannten, aber nicht minder reizv...

Ich bin in einem Elternhaus aufgewachsen, in dem es weder Radio noch Fernsehen gab, dafür einen Dual-Plattenspieler, den natürlich nur meine Eltern bedienen durften. Und es gab nur klassische Platten....

In the Mozart Year, Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Kilius asked Heinz Holliger for a striking encore piece for violin and viola for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante which had often been performed by them unde...

Die im Titel genannten Namen beziehen sich auf Allegra Mostyn-Owen und Boris Johnson. Allegra Mostyn-Owen ist die einzige Tochter der italienischen Dichterin Gaia Servadio und des Historikers Mostyn-O...

The long-term friendship between Anne-Sophie Mutter and Krzysztof Penderecki has not only produced the second violin concerto ('Metamorphoses') and the second sonata for violin, but also the new Duo c...

Das Spielen im Duo macht sowohl professionellen Musikern als auch Laien viel Freude und gibt kreative Impulse für das Musizieren. Die Klangverbindung unterschiedlicher Streichinstrumente übt durch die...

An exciting communicative musical journey: These Dialogues have the violin and cello adopting different personalities, temperaments and moods to 'speak' to one another. The titles of the pieces and de...

Dans le pays natal du compositeur chinois, la fleur du pêcher est un symbole de recommencement et d'immortalité. Dans cette (oEuvre, des fleurs tourbillonnantes sont dotées d'un symbolisme visuel impr...

When Ligeti taught composition at the University of Stockholm in the 1960s, he met his famous Swedish fellow composer Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985). Ligeti wrote this musical greeting on the occasion...